Nurse reunion

Photo by Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun

Dorothy Hutchins of Towson (left) spends time with Charlotte Rollenhagen on Monday. The women met at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1940, when Hutchins was a 10-year-old girl who suffered burns in a kitchen accident and Rollenhagen was her young nurse. The two bonded and have maintained a friendship for more than seven decades, even as they married, raised families, pursued careers and as Rollenhagen moved across the country.

Dorothy Hutchins of Towson (left) spends time with Charlotte Rollenhagen on Monday. The women met at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1940, when Hutchins was a 10-year-old girl who suffered burns in a kitchen accident and Rollenhagen was her young nurse. The two bonded and have maintained a friendship for more than seven decades, even as they married, raised families, pursued careers and as Rollenhagen moved across the country. (Photo by Pamela Wood, The Baltimore Sun)

Dorothy Hutchins of Towson (left) spends time with Charlotte Rollenhagen on Monday. The women met at Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1940, when Hutchins was a 10-year-old girl who suffered burns in a kitchen accident and Rollenhagen was her young nurse. The two bonded and have maintained a friendship for more than seven decades, even as they married, raised families, pursued careers and as Rollenhagen moved across the country.